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Stake-Pin.

Patented May 18, I880.

WITNESSES ATTORNEY N. PETERS. FNDTO-LITHOGMPMER. WASHINGTON. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM J. CARNES, SR, OF GONZALES, TEXAS, AND CHARLES W.

PENFIELD, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.

STAKE-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 227,675, dated May 18,1880,

Application filed September 17, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WM. J. CARNES, Sr., of Gonzales, county ofGonzales, State of Texas, and CHARLES W. PENFIELD, of New Britain, inthe county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented a new andvaluable Improvement in Stake-Pins; and we do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the constructionand operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,making a partof this specification, and to the letters and figures ofreference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a perspective view of myimproved stakepin. Fig. 2 is a side view thereof, partly in section, andFig. 3 is a detail. This invention has relation to improvements instake-pins forpicketing horses and attaching the lariat or rope.

The nature of the invention consists in the construction and novelarrangement ofa stakepin composed of a prismatic drive-spike having atits upper end an annular recess without obstruction, and seated in saidrecess a ring having an eye, said ring being extended between theshoulders of said recess and in contact therewith, and said shoulderscovering the edges of the ring to keep out dirt and prevent the ropefrom becoming fastened in winding, as hereinafter shown and described.

In the annexed drawings, the letter A designates a vertically-corrugatedmetallic pin tapering to a. point and having a rounded head. Below thishead is an annular recess, (1., provided with shoulders a at its top andbottom, in which rotates, in a plane at right angles to the length ofthe pin, a ring, b. This ring has an eye, 0, for the attachment of the.end of the lariat or rope, and it is cast on the pin in the followingmanner:

The ring and eye are cast separate from the pin, and, when cast, the,inner surface of the former is coated with a mixture of fine sand andoil or shellac. A pattern of the pin and 5 ring together, solid, is thenmolded and withdrawn from the flask and a ring and eye laid in theimpression made by the ring and eye of the pattern. Melted metal is nowpoured into the mold and the stake-pin cast complete.

In this way theringand eye can be made so as to rotate freely on. thepin, the coating of sand having prevented the adherence thereof, andwhen the pin is in the ground the lariat or rope cannot be wound aroundit; consequently the tether cannot be shortened, and the animal maygraze over the whole surface included within a circle described, withthe lariat as a radius.

We are aware that a drive-spike of prismatic form is not new, and thatit is not new to cast a notched ring about a shouldered screw having alog on the shoulder, and we do not claim such invention; but

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The stake-pin herein described, consisting of the prismatic drive-spikeA, having at its upper end an annular recess without obstruction, andseated in said recess the ring I), having the eye 0, said ring beingextended between the shoulders of said recess and in contact therewith,and said shoulders covering the edges of the ring to keep out dirt andpre vent the rope from becoming fastened in winding, as shown anddescribed.

In testimony that we claim the above we have hereunto subscribed ournames in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM J. CARNES, SR. CHARLES W. PENFIELDV Witnesses:

H. C. NOBLE, E. H. KELLEY.

